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Question: In general, which in the following list is most important to you in describing who you are?
Choices: "Your current or previous occupation (or being a homemaker)" "Your race/ethnic background" "Your gender (that is, being a man/woman)" "Your age group (that is, Young, Middle Age, Old)" "Your religion (or being agnostic or atheist)" "Your preferred political party, group, or movement"? "Your nationality" "Your family or marital status (that is, son/daughter, mother/father, grandfather/grandmother, husband/wife, widower/widow, not married, or other similar)" "Your social class (that is upper, middle, lower, working, or similar categories)" "The part of country that you live in"
Data: % of "Your religion (or being agnostic or atheist)"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States11.0%
2 Canada5.9%
4 France4.7%
6 Germany3.2%
7 United Kingdom3.0%
9 Japan1.7%

Note
Others/ Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2003

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 4.183797 X +6.421
Correlation coefficient (r)0.474
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.225

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 447221.380293 X +30813.782
Correlation coefficient (r)0.937
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.878

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -60.209741 X +84.244
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.906
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.821

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 2.747249 X +1.378
Correlation coefficient (r)0.450
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.203

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 53.812324 X +7.669
Correlation coefficient (r)0.650
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.423